Comments on: Shockingly, a team has a beef with umpire Joe Westhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/05/19/shockingly-a-team-has-a-beef-with-umpire-joe-west/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Sat, 10 Dec 2016 02:56:52 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: kingkillerstudioshttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/05/19/shockingly-a-team-has-a-beef-with-umpire-joe-west/#comment-139878
Fri, 20 May 2011 19:01:36 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139878Are we going to get deets on that or do we have to imagine some horror show involving a moon bounce?
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Fri, 20 May 2011 01:14:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139609Totally agree. When they have the West/Hernandez crew they do not argue anything, they don’t linger after a called 3rd strike, the pitchers don’t pause or glare in after bad calls, nothing. They just stare at the ground and go back to the bench/base/position.

You aren’t going to gain anything by arguing with those guys, so why bother?

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Fri, 20 May 2011 00:18:26 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139598It is difficult to add anything to the above posts, but I will try anyway. Due to the authoritarian attitude of the West/Hernandez duo my Cards seem to have taken the path of least resistance, which while perhaps wise, still irks me. The twosome has made it clear that if you complain it will only get worse for your prospective team. MLB needs to put their foot down. Either the Umps Union becomes self-regulating or outside management will intrude. The notion that umpires are above criticism is a fatuous stance that can no longer be tolerated. I know a system is in place that grades the games officials call is in place, but it has no teeth. The results need to become transparent or else action from the grading system must be enforced. Everyday this blog is loaded with calls for this or that player to step aside, due to their ineptitude. Why should it be any different for those who call the game?
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Thu, 19 May 2011 23:19:17 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139590On the contrary…looks like (Fat)Cowboy Joe West has Domino’s on speed dial.
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Thu, 19 May 2011 22:34:36 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139578I love the demotion idea. If you suck, you have to ump at the AAA level until you earn your way back.
]]>By: uuddlrlrbastarthttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/05/19/shockingly-a-team-has-a-beef-with-umpire-joe-west/comment-page-2/#comment-139576
Thu, 19 May 2011 22:27:11 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139576Blowing a call is one thing. But if Joe West really wasn’t watching Patterson to make sure he left on time, then he’s negligent too. If baseball refuses to institute a replay system or a merit-based system for umpire promotions (and demotions) because “it’s part of the game,” I can almost, barely, see that argument. But they can’t compound it by allowing outright negligence.
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Thu, 19 May 2011 22:11:44 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139570My wife who does not watch baseball knows that Angel Hernandez is the worst umpire in the league because every time I watch a game with him I start yelling at the TV. EVERY TIME! It’s uncanny.
]]>By: jimbo1949http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/05/19/shockingly-a-team-has-a-beef-with-umpire-joe-west/#comment-139557
Thu, 19 May 2011 21:28:53 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139557Never trust anyone who doesn’t have chins

Fixed it fer ya.

]]>By: nixonotishttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/05/19/shockingly-a-team-has-a-beef-with-umpire-joe-west/#comment-139552
Thu, 19 May 2011 21:15:01 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139552Bonus point for spelling his last name correctly!
]]>By: paperlionshttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/05/19/shockingly-a-team-has-a-beef-with-umpire-joe-west/#comment-139549
Thu, 19 May 2011 21:10:50 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139549Just saw CB Bucknor blow an out/safe call on a SB in the LAA/SEA game….another name that comes up too often because of an inability to do his job adequately.
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Thu, 19 May 2011 20:20:57 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139517What was the point of busting the Umpire’s Union a few years back if we can’t just unilatterally toss these guys out on their well-padded keysters? Maybe we could have a hybrid computer-umpire system. Whenever K zone determines a pitch was a definite strike, an electric shock will be sent to Cowboy Joe West’s scrotum.
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Thu, 19 May 2011 20:20:17 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139516I can get over umpires blowing calls alone as much as it ticks me off. But after having to work with Joe West professionally last year, I can say that he is indeed a smug, controlling jackass. I don’t know how he still has a job.
]]>By: donkeyballhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/05/19/shockingly-a-team-has-a-beef-with-umpire-joe-west/#comment-139506
Thu, 19 May 2011 20:09:16 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139506We shouldn’t leave out the name Doug Eddings into the “should have been fired long ago” list.
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Thu, 19 May 2011 19:52:13 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139493Laz Diaz is actually a decent ump and he’s the one that beat the p|ss out of the two guys that attacked him while he was umping first (some skuzzy guy and his son). ex-marine brickhouse – talk about picking the wrong ump to fvck with.
]]>By: bobwschttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/05/19/shockingly-a-team-has-a-beef-with-umpire-joe-west/#comment-139491
Thu, 19 May 2011 19:50:33 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139491didn’t Joe Torre just come out with some BS statement that “umps haven’t felt like part of the game?” granted they shouldn’t, but if this is their way of trying to become more involved, then the whole system is…how you say…out of whack.
]]>By: bobwschttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/05/19/shockingly-a-team-has-a-beef-with-umpire-joe-west/#comment-139487
Thu, 19 May 2011 19:48:04 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139487granted that chin is like a kangaroo pocket, he looks a lot less fat than in the past.
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Thu, 19 May 2011 19:25:45 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139467Hey now…if a player hits .300, he is having a good year. Joe West is getting the call right about 3 out of 10 times, so he is having a good year!
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Thu, 19 May 2011 19:23:12 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139462Mike Adams has got some guts saying that…You go Mikey, I HATE both of those umps…so many screwed calls………………
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Thu, 19 May 2011 19:04:13 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139430Why should anything happen now since it never has before and both of these jokers are still umping? MLB continues to look the other way when it comes to this so I guess the men in blue must have a good union.
]]>By: joecool16280http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2011/05/19/shockingly-a-team-has-a-beef-with-umpire-joe-west/#comment-139411
Thu, 19 May 2011 18:58:08 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=58402#comment-139411How does he still have a job? Seriously!
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